BoR (11) 06b BEREC report NGA Country Cases - IRG

BoR (11) 06b
Telekom Deutschland GmbH has announced in spring 2010 the roll-out of FTTH-lines. It
plans to build FTTH-infrastructure (GPON) in order to connect 10% of the households
(operating with fixed lines) in Germany until 2012 (homes passed), mass marketbusiness
will start in 2011.
The first isolated project was in Dresden, others are currently following (e.g. in
Braunschweig). After having finished pilot projects further regions for roll-out will be
announced (criteria: investment sum per access, possible customers, density of
competition)
1.2 Competitors (other telcos, cable)
1.2.1 Actual roll-out
� Illustrate the current status of NGA roll-out of competitors (e.g. telcos or cable operators)
in your country. Consider the aspects addressed in 1.1.1. and add number of NGA lines
(passed/connected). Please provide figures as of June 30 2010.
� Around 20 operators (e.g. NetCologne, Wilhelm.tel or M.net) are building their own
infrastructure based on FTTH or FTTB, the focus lies on building FTTB-lines.
� Also utilities (e.g. Stadtwerke Schwerte, Essen.net) are starting to roll out
infrastructure
� FTTH amounts to approximately 22.000 customers passed and around 13.000e
customers connected, for FTTB there are about 120.000 customers connected
� High speed TV-cable internet (e.g. Kabel Deutschland) covers approximately 750.000
customers connected
� A few competitors are using Telekom Deutschland GmbH‟s VDSL-infrastructure by
renting VDSL-Bitstream (about 6.000 customers connected)
� Different technologies used by competitors: GPON, P2P (VDSL, Ethernet), cable
(DOCSIS 3.0)
� Competitor‟s offers depend on their infrastructure (technologies); different kinds of
access lines products are available, which can be bundled, with different kinds of
bandwidths: telephony, internet, IP-TV, mobile service (e.g. double play: Vodafone,
triple play: Unity Media, quad play: Verivox); (table underneath gives a few examples
for Triple Play)
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